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Patented Sept. 26, 1939 PATENT OFFICE BEVERAGE MIXER Henry J. Chilton, Chicago, lll., assignor to The Liquid Carbonio Corporation, Chicago, Ill.

Application August 10, 1936, Serial No. 95,114

2 Claims.

My invention relates to improvements in machines for agitating bottles containing liquids, for the purpose of thoroughly mixing the contents of the bottles.

It is primarily intended for use in agitating bottled beverages so that the syrup and the carbonated water contained in the bottle, after the bottle has been filled and sealed, may be thoroughly mixed together.

My invention has for one of its objects that of mechanically oscillating the bottle on an axis substantially at right angle to the axis of the bottle during its conveyed movement, so that the position of the bottle will be alternately reversed to cause the liquid contained in the bottle to flow back and forth therein.

For the purpose of disclosing my invention, I have illustrated an embodiment thereof in the accompanying drawings, in which:

Fig. 1 is a plan view of a machine embodying my invention;

Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view thereof;

Fig. 3 is a developed plan of the agitating cam; and I Fig. 4 is a longitudinal section of one of the bottle clamping members.

In the embodiment of the invention illustrated, a table or platform I is mounted on suitable supporting legs 2. This platform has extending upwardly therefrom a central supporting stud 3 on which is adapted to revolve a rotating table 4. This rotating table is driven through the medium of a ring gear 5 mounted on the underside of the rotating table and meshing with the driving pinion E mounted on the upper end of the vertical shaft 1 journalled in a vertical bearing 8 and having a driving connection with a worm gear 9 supported on platform I carried by the legs 2 beneath the table I. This worm gear is provided with a horizontal shaft I I having a driving pulley I2 mounted thereon and provided with a belt drive connection I3 with a driving motor I4. A suitable clutch mechanism is provided in the worm gear by which the worm gear may be connected or disconnected with the shaft I I.

A plurality of radially extending ribs I are formed on the upper surface of the turntable 4 and these ribs at their outer ends extend upwardly and outwardly to provide supporting arms I5. These supporting arms I5 are arranged in pairs and between each pair of arms is pivotally mounted a bottle support. This bottle support comprises a supporting platform I6 having sidewalls I'I and extending outwardly from an oscillating tubular member I8. The upper end of this tubular member is provided with a crossbar I9 pivotally supported between a pair of the arms I5. This tubular stem or member I8 is also provided with a rearwardly and angularly disposed arm I9 carrying a roller 20, the purpose of which.

will more full hereinafter appear. Means are provided for clamping the bottle on the support IIi and this means comprises a vertically movable rod 2I having a clamping arm 22 adjustably mounted at the top of the rod and adapted to project over the platform I6. This rod is biased in its clamping position by means of a coiled spring 23 enclosed within the tubular stem I8 and surrounding the rod 2l. The upper end of this spring bears against the top of the stem I8 and the lower end bears against a collar 2li mounted on the lower end of the rod 2l. The spring, therefore, places sufficient pressure on the rod 2| to clamp the end of the arm 22 upon the top of a bottle after the bottle has been placed in position upon the support IB.

The bottles being placed upon the support I6 are adapted to be oscillated with the support as the support rotates with the table 4. To this end, I provide on the supporting table I an operating cam track comprising the two spaced apart track members 25 and 25 stationarily mounted on supporting pillars or standards 21 at spaced intervals around the cam track and extending upwardly from the base or table I. This cam track has a peculiar configuration, as illustrated in Fig. 3. It has a substantially straight portion 28 at the receiving point of the apparatus. This substantially straight portion, which is so disposed as to maintain the platform I6 in a horizontal and receiving position, then bends outwardly and upwardly as at 29 to cause the arm I9 and its associated roller 20 to rock the support I8 on its pivot until the bottle is substantially inverted, as illustrated at the right of Fig. 2. The cam then bends downwardly and inwardly as at 3i] to reverse the movement of the support to move the bottle back to almost vertical position. This waving shape of the cam may be repeated as many times as is desirable, in the present instance there being four more additional waves during a complete cycle of a bottle, so that the bottle is repeatedly oscillated from the vertical or near vertical inverted position during the rotation of the table 4. By the time the bottle has reached its delivery position again, the roller 2i] will have been moved into the portion 28 of the track to cause the platform to resume its position with the bottle vertical. During the movement of the roller 20 in the portion 28 of the cam track, the clamping arm 22 is raised sufficiently to permit a bottle to be inserted beneath or removed from beneath the same. This is accomplished by means of a roller 3l at the bottom end of each of the rods 2 I, which roller engages an elevating cam 32 mounted on the table I beneath the vertically moving rod 2|. As the roller 3| passes over this cam, the rod will be raised sufficiently to move the arm 22 out of clamping position.

The bottles are delivered to and received from the agitating mixing device by means of a traveling conveyor 33 arranged at one side of the mixer and tangentially to the periphery of the table I. At the delivery point, one of the guides 34 at the side of the conveyor 33 is provided with an inwardly curved portion 35 against which the bottle impinges and by which the bottle is guided on to one of the platforms i6, it being remembered that the table rotates in the direction of the arrow as indicated in Fig. l. A similar pick-off guide 36 is placed at the delivery point in the rotation of the table against which the bottle on the platform I6 will strike and be guided off of the platform on to the traveling conveyor. As above explained, at the charging and discharging point, the clamping arm 22 is raised to permit the bottle to be inserted therebeneath.

I claim as my invention:

l. A machine of the character described, the combination with a rotary table, of a bottle support pivoted on said table'and rotatable therewith, an irregular circular cam stationarily mounted relatively to said table and above the plane of said table, having a portion maintaining said support in a horizontal position for a portion of its travel and a portion for imparting an oscillating movement to said support and a roller operatively connected with said support and engaging said cam.

2. In a machine of the character described, the combination with a rotary table, of a bottle holder pivotally mounted on said table and rotatable therewith and adapted to receive the bottle in a vertical upright position, a circular cam associated with said table and relatively stationarily mounted above the plane of said head, a roller on said holder engaging said cam, the contour of said cam being such as to impart a series of oscillations to said holder.

HENRY J. CHILTON.

CERTIFICATE 0E CORRECTION. Patent No. 2,17LL5256. lseptember 26,11959.

HENRY J.v CHILTON.

It is hereby certified that error appears in the printed specification offthe above numbered 'patent requiring Correction as follows :A Page 2, second Column, line 22, claim', for the word "head" read table; and that the said Lettera Patent should be .read with this correction therein that the Same may Conform to the record of the case in the Patent Office.

Signed and sealed this 51st day of October, A. D.' 19-59'.

Henry Van Arsdale, (Seal) Acting. Commissioner Aof Patents. 

